Pink Fairies Roundhouse July 13th 1975

[@TheSwitchCleaner1978]

HELLO KIDS I FILMED THIS IN 75

[@raccoon8962]

Back then you were -3 years old.

[@tonybravado9993]

& I put it onto video!

[@markpearson7296]

Sunday afternoons at the Roundhouse, best gig in London in the 70's.

[@LondonJohn129]

This is what it's like if I don't wear my glasses!

[@stevendimmock4791]

Nice to see, but we should have made more of the fairies. They were brilliant, yet the media seems to have treated them so shoddily. City kids is a classic and always will be. There should be good, clear video of it to raise it up to it's brilliance for ever more!!!

[@nhunter77018]

Damn Russell Hunter really knew his way around a drum kit. I saw the Pink Fairies one time in some club in Doncaster in the mid 70's. I had no way to get home so I had to sleep in the train station until the first train the next morning. Well worth it!

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

Russell was a really nice guy, he used to work the ticket office at Dingwall's, Camden, and let us in a couple of times for free!

[@DeltaJazzUK]

The club was called the Outlook

[@buriedverydeep]

City Kids is a CLASSIC

[@createalifeyoulove1900]

I cannot believe I have found the Pink Fairies on You Tube! I LOVED them in the 70s and can still enjoy them now - oh wow - how amazing! Also lovely to find people who loved them as much as me - probably my age too - love to you all ........ :-) (am feeling Real Neat right now).....

[@Carlito1988]

Live Pink Fairies!! They were not just a bunch of crazy hippies, they made some great music thru the years, just not enough!!

[@fccwebmeister]

Yeah I was there too, and every Sunday. Never forget gigs at the RH what a place.

[@roryboy100]

@Bucklefooked I went to my garage yesterday where i found an old biscuit tin with loads of badges i got from the Roundhouse in the 70's. I found a couple of Pink Faries badges, the memories came flooding back. If it's true that we are constantly at the point of death and reliving our lives... then i would'nt change a thing in what i did when i was younger...the drugs...the drink..the drugs...the drugs... the hair.. the loons...the drugs... Maybe not the Afghan coat....

[@garymansfield9070]

Was at this gig, what a night! 😀 😊😁

[@az59]

@Dindonuffink That's one I'll never forget. I was a naive 15 year old pseudo freak, hanging out with a bunch of heads in Chalk Farm.

[@haarlsonphillipps4552]

I was at this gig. Remember it fondly.

[@johnny-p]

You remember it?😮

[@dodibenabba1378]

Wallis and Rudolph together! Happy days!

[@felixfelix7447]

Don't think thats paul rudolph 🤔

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Yes its both Paul Rudolph and Larry Wallis @ this '75 reunion gig plus Sandy, Russell, and Twink - 2 lead guitars, 2 drummers, 3 lead vocalists

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Too bad short term members circa 1972 - Trevor Bolder and Mick Wayne couldn't make the gig. Even worse... too bad Steve Peregrin Took and Mick Farren (original charter members circa 1969 along with John "Twink" Alder) couldn't make the gig either !!

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Steve Peregrin Took also made a second attempt in 1972 with the Pink Fairies... After Paul Rudolph left, Mick Wayne joined long enough to record a single and left...and before Larry Wallis joined in 1973.

[@deeskushun]

up the pinks...

[@DWKThedogbreaths]

i was at this gig. amazing afternoon and evening. liquid len did back projectionzzz and pf began set with trippy version of the locomotion.

[@KristerKnutars]

Totally unsynced audio! I wouldn't have it any other way with Pink Fairies 😂👍🏻

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

Oh wow I just read on the classic rock website that Larry Wallis guitarist passed away last September in 2019. Larry along with Lemmy on bass & vocals and Lucas Fox on drums formed the original MOTORHEAD line up which formed in London in 1975. Larry played in several other rock bands most notably the Pink Fairies during the 1970s and was also a staff producer at STIFF records during the 1970s as well. Larry passed away on September 19th 2019 age 70. Well I knew about Lemmy, but Larry basically was not as well known as Lemmy.

[@mcwomble1]

My 16th birthday , oh happy days, loved the Roundhouse, use to bunk of school hang out there , saw some great gigs there, still see stray around Del just keeps going

[@braindeadtoo]

I prefer Stray now to the old days. I don't remember Del being as entertaining and as up front then, as he is now.

[@roryboy100]

It hurts to watch this now... What a bunch of sweeties was the first album i purchased. I remember my mate Ian Mann saying he used to live in a squat with Hawkwind and the Pinks but did not believe him... Lemmy walked over to us in the bar bar of the RoundHouse and they were chatting like old mates.. Great days.. 4 bottles of Newcastle Brown please.. all for me

[@394pjo]

I had all the PF albums as a teenager, was just a tad too young to go to gigs then unfortunately. Listening to them now Im amazed how much Motorhead I can hear in their sound.

[@braindeadtoo]

I drove past Larry Wallis on my way to this gig. He was waiting for a bus on the Walworth Road. I was too stage-struck to offer him a lift. Then again, I only had a Mini and don't think his hair would have fitted in anyway. As for "up the pinks", I nealy got arrested once when I shouted that out in front of a copper. He was convinced I said pigs. I didn't, honest. Arrrr, happy days.

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

Larry and some of the band lived above the tailor's shop in Walworth Road for a few years, popped up there a couple of times to have a few joints with them.

[@braindeadtoo]

@@MahoganyRushSteve My Mate used to work in Unwin's the off licence, across from The Fountain pub. Larry used to buy his drink there. This lead my mate to buy "What A Bunch Of Sweeties". He didn't like it so he gave it to me and I've been a Fairies fan ever since. BTW, my mate told me that he lived above the "Fantastic Boutique" which was to the left of Woolworth's in Walworth Road.

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

@@braindeadtoo Yeah thanks for correcting me, the Tailor's was I believe to the left of that, I knew clothes were involved. 'What A Bunch Of Sweeties' was a good album too definitely if one was stoned, but I still love Never Never Land.

[@braindeadtoo]

@@MahoganyRushSteve My dad liked "Pigs Of Uranus", which I thought very strange at the time because it was nothing like Al Joson, Vera Lyn or the theme tune from the film, "The Battle o|f Britain".

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

@@braindeadtoo was that just the track or the whole album? It is strange sometimes what our parents would or wouldn't like, though I'm in the parent category myself, and of similar age to the Fairies.

[@Vaisnavi58]

I was there. You could go behind the stage and climb up a ladder and watch the band on the stage from a really high vantage point.

[@russthelegend57]

I remember that guy! Bongo Jesus we used to call him...

[@maxsno]

Ah the stratosphere at last , exhale inhale. Do it Do it

[@roryboy100]

I remember seeing UFO at the Greyhound pub in Fulham Palace Road in the early 70's ... we were living in great times then and we did'nt realise it did we. Did anyone here ever go to the Three Fishes and the Two Brewers in Kingston.

[@roryboy100]

Am i dreaming or did i see the Pink Fairies and Hawkwind performing under the underpass somewhere near Portobello Rd in London in the 1970's..... god those little blue tabs were good in those days

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

No they were there, apparently quite often.

[@shanerandall9829]

Yeah saw both a few times there. Was called "under the westway" other regulars were Chilli Willi and Good Habit. Loved that place.

[@swirljet4245]

@@shanerandall9829 I'm so glad i was a hippy in the 70's. Did you ever get up to the 3 Fishes, in Kingston Upon Thames,

[@TheJohnmb46]

I saw Pink Fairies at Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt twice, about three years apart - both on farewell tours!

[@roryboy100]

Dumpy Rusty Nuts.. wow that was a name often heard in Kingston where i lived in the 70's... if time travel ever became possible i would gladly go back to those days... the blues we used to get were better than any coke or sulph... i used to live opposite the house where they were made... i think they were hippies.

[@stephenmills8232]

I was there 🤪

[@GeorgeHenderson]

Listening to the radio in Invercargill, New Zealand on a Sunday night (in the early 70s, when Sundays were still Sundays - try explaining the expression "a month of Sundays" to a kid today), my little brother and I heard "Uncle Harry's Last Freakout" being played (for some reason) on 4ZA Foveaux Radio.. Blew our minds man. We never looked back; it was music, revolution or death from then on!

[@grhaffdd]

We used to go there about once a week. Looked out for it when have driven through kingston since but it has either gone or am looking in the wrong place. didn't they change the name to the royal charter in the late 70's went there one night and it was all different? Saw the pinks a lot in the mid 70's, excelent band.

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

I was there most Sunday up in the lighting box as I had been introduced to Peter who worked it, and taping most bands, but as previously mentioned most of them were nicked when I got bugled, just wish I had them now so I could upload and share with others!

[@gfrkiss]

Saw them in 1985..at the old Forum Kentish Town..I had no money so i stays clean for the whole gig...an all dayer! Great stuff..then ...Great news ...2008 Roundhouse !Da Pink Fairies..i goes to da gig with my good lady only to be told that Larry has done his back in at re(hehe)arsals..Boo Hoo.. some one tell me what actually happened..Please..or do i have to wait another 20 odd years again? Whatta band.. Up the Pinks!

[@roryboy100]

Hi mate From what i remember not many bands played the Jolly Brewers as it was too small so i must have watched your band. We used to stay in the brewers and then go to the Fishes for last knockings.

[@vaspers]

congratulations. today this video was selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation. way to go.

[@thePatnolan]

I remember Chrissie, she lived up on Kingston Hill a few years back, gorgeous and an ex Mayfair centrefold model? haven't seen or heard of her in years. You used to hang out with her if I remember correctly Paula? Paddy xx

[@michaelabbott3994]

strangely enough I was talking about Operation Julie with a friend on Thursday....things never been the same since..

[@bas9150]

I was there......yehhhh

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

I was up in the lighting box at this gig (and others), and had my Philips stereo cassette recorder set up to record it. I used to listen to that tape over and over, until I got burgled one day and a lot of my live tapes got nicked, this being one of them (sob sob). So when the Pink Fairies - Live at the Roundhouse/ previously unreleased and the bonus Do It '77 EP Twink and the Fairies came out on CD it was a no brainer, it had to be bought. I still think my recording was better though, fuck that burgler!

[@jarrettgardner0628]

you recorded the whole gig through the live board into Phillips recorder?

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

@@jarrettgardner0628 no it wasn't through the sound board, the recorder (obviously) had two microphones, left and right, that I used to record it, the knob was only at one and a half, as the view meters showed that any higher would lead to distortion.

[@WackaJawacka]

Ha Ha! Just found this! I was here. Third day up on Whizz... I remember Larry Wallis keeping on saying "Turn the fuckin white lights out!!!!" 1975. It was end to end good gigs. Good chemicals at good prices. Was this the start of tha Pinks Farewell concerts? Loved the Roundhouse, then. Down to Camden Market (was still just about a Head place) then up to the gig. Bout five bands on. Upp, I think were on earlier.

[@felixfelix1477]

Gary Price larry was always shouting about the brigjt lights. He threatenened to sack the lighting people in cheltenham 1987! Im sure they were doing it deliberately 😊

[@chrisukman]

I used to work at the marque wardour street at the time behind the bar, good old venue...

[@andythomas706]

+Chris Andrews I spent most of 1968 and 69 in there Chris. What times!

[@TheEagleJunction]

This is fucking amazing

[@tonyturner3530]

Was there ofcourse think we did at least 75 Pink Fairies Concerts minimum over the years

[@buriedverydeep]

It'd be fantastic if somebody uploaded some Deviants' stuff

[@Kegwithlegs]

Yeah I'd like that too, I think I saw them with Pretty things at a Parlament Hill free concert in 1969! They played a jam session with the Things!

[@ThePsychedelicRealm]

Lazza❣️

[@yaarge2]

I remember Lemmy onstage for one of the encores .?.

[@braindeadtoo]

That happened the week before Motorhead's first gig. All three members of the original lineup played in the Fairies one week and Motorhead the next, i.e. Lemmy, Larry and Lucus Fox. I was there for both. I've also got the first Motohead LP with the silver skull, which is worth loads now.

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

And up!

[@roryboy100]

In those days there used to be a bit of snobbery surrounding the Fishes so it was only until the Jolly Brewers shut that we jumped ship to the Fishes perminantly. Do you remember a guy called Lemmy with long black hair and Indian Jim. I miss those days so much, even when the Jokers invaded the pub. Keep in touch with your memories mate and thanks for replying.

[@ianashworth5953]

Saw them in Colwyn Bay of all places! It’s was 1972 I think?

[@snotmale]

I bought the LP 'What a Bunch of Sweeties' when was about 15 as a friend was well into these guys and I liked the rawness and mayhem... but after a few plays at home and the constant nagging of 'Turn that bloody rubbish off!' from my parents, I then went back to WH Smiths and swapped it for Mott The Hoople...!

[@dodibenabba1378]

More fool you!

[@robinjames29]

i was there

[@TheSwitchCleaner1978]

HELLO KIDS,I WAS THE GUY WHO FILMED THIS IN 75.I SUGGEST YOU LISTEN TO THE DRUG SQUAD ON YOU TUBE NOW GET IT IN WHILE YOUR YOUNG KIDDIES PLEASE YOUR REMARKS ON THE DRUG SQUAD WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATIVE

[@Frenchy1312]

You got to listen to them to understand where punk came from.

[@TVsMrHappyTalk]

Indeed! I loved the Fairies.. and the Roundhouse which, because the 68 bus route ran from Croydon right through London up to Chalk Farm was well doable. Caught a fair few terrific shows there back in the day.

[@Frenchy1312]

@TVsMrHappyTalk hello, Captain!! How you doing? I

[@donlofting4268]

Think they played on the back of a truck outside bath music festival 1970

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Listen to "City Kids" and that is punk right there. Listen to The Clash and The Buzzcocks and you can tell they must of heard and were influnced by the Pinks.....lots of what I would call proto punk attitude in the early 70s from bands like Hawkwind, Dr Feelgood, not played much on the radio you had to seek it out.

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Ya British proto punkers... The Deviants, Edgar Broughton Band, Pink Fairies, Shagrat, Hawkwind...psych punks and cosmic boogie... Along with Crushed Butler, Third World War, and Stack Waddy... As heavy and tough as those former bands all were/are... Quite franky, the latter 3 bands were/are way heavier and thrashier... Especially, Crushed Butler & Third World War!! 1 second ago

[@jarrettgardner0628]

In fact I'd be willing to wage that Crushed Butler was Britain's equivalent... to their American counterparts... and were just as loud, fast, and rowdy as The Psychedelic Stooges ever were!!

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Third World War were more political proto punks and were the British equivalent to their American counterparts... the MC5!!!

[@jarrettgardner0628]

In fact when The Stooges reformed in early 1972 with the aid of David Bowie, Tony Defries and MainMan... When Iggy Pop and James Williamson of The Stooges arrived over to England to rehearse and settle on a new rhythm section David Bowie offered is opinion that they should check out the Pink Fairies bass / drums rhythm section of Duncan Sanderson and Russell Hunter... As potential members to back The Stooges... But they were passed over ...cuz James Williamson dismissed them outright on his false assumption that a band with the name "Pink Fairies" would not be all that loud, heavy, and powerful ... & let's be honest ... A Band with the moniker of "Pink Fairies" doesn't sound that tough either ...

[@jarrettgardner0628]

After Iggy Pop and James Williamson checked out The Pink Fairies debut album "Never Never Land" from 1971 and passed on their rhythm section... David Bowie then suggested bass player Jim Avery and drummer Paul Olsen from pro Castro, political proto punks, Third World War... again after checking out the debut self titled Third World War album from 1971... Once again, Iggy Pop and James Williamson rejected the Third World War rhythm section to back the newly reformed Stooges.

[@gfvbott]

what about "The Snake"?

[@Johnnyboi1971]

silk and leather wot a tune also ,anyone got that for you tube?

[@heracleummantagazzi]

saw the fairies in Grantchester Meadows (Remember Pink Floyd) in 1971 or 2 I think Probably to stoned to remember

[@garymansfield9070]

And as for the acid, the best ever!! 😁

[@Bucklefooked]

@roryboy100 Me too wouldn't change a thing. One gig I always wish I'd been at was Ziggy's last gig July 3rd '73. Oohhhhhh yeah.

[@wobblyone]

Yes its Uncle Harry's Excellent!

[@departments2006]

@TheSwitchCleaner Tell us more Mr Cleaner...

[@roryboy100]

@Ayrshirenutter No mate you were looking in the right place but they knocked it down and the original site in now part of the one way system; it's just before the train bridge and opposie a bingo hall...there is a pub called the Artful Dodger close by. Do you remember Irish Paul and Indian Jim or the twins. I remember a bloke who looked a lot like Lemmy so we called him Lemmy, nice feller.

[@thePatnolan]

Wasn't Dave Spinks was it ? (Lemmy) as he roadied for Hawkwind in those days. I was a regular at the Jolly Brewers with my bestest mate Birty (Burt) Wirty. Barred from the 3 Fishes 'cos I was always stoned on something or other. I'm Paddy.......That was 30 plus years ago Dudes !!

[@minutegongcoughs]

roryboy100. Yeah, what happened to Jesus (and his tamborine) Last saw him at the Television/Blondie gig at the Ham. Odeon in Spring 1977. I spoke to him in Kensington Market about a week later. We must of agreed to disagree on who was better. Halcyon days indeed.

[@braindeadtoo]

I was at the Television gig too. I couldn't understand why so many people were watching the support band. Didn't think much of Blondie then or now. I still love Television.

[@arsydd]

'Uncle Harry's Last Freak Out' is the first one, 'City Kids' the second.

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

I don't know how they filmed it in this order as the set list ran, City Kids, Waiting for the Man, Lucille, Uncle Harry's Last Freak Out and Going Down. I still prefer the Never Never Land version, pure Paul Rudolf and I was told that Paul also played a lot of the bass on that album, some dispute within the band, they were always having them. Paul played apparently on, This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of us by Sparks. Get the Never Never Land CD and it has 4 bonus tracks, The Snake, Do It (single edit), War Girl (slightly longer version) and Uncle Harry's Last Freak Out (first version - previously unreleased).

[@roryboy100]

@Ayrshirenutter Sorry mate it was to a ref of the Three Fishes in Kingston...happy xmas mate

[@esslar1]

No band would have the balls to call themselves the Pink Fairies now.

[@WackaJawacka]

I was there. First Motorhead gig there couple of weeks later. Remember Larry saying "Turn the fucjking white lights out!" Post operation Julie. The authorities were closing the fun down a bit by this point. Third day on whizzo for me when I got here. The casual sex comment was spot on. We were lying upstairs with each others jeans down to our thighs having a a load of intergender activity. I didn't SEE much of this. Took the daughter to see Motorhead other month. Not as good as our Tubes gig!

[@attilathefun1]

goddamn how did you find this??? thanks nonetheless.

[@roryboy100]

I've still got a copy Greasy Truckers album. They even included the powercut.What ever happened to Magic Michael? 5 bottles of Newcastle Brown please and whatever he's having... oh make that 10 bottles of Newcastle Brown barman.

[@MahoganyRushSteve]

Yeah I got that on vinyl and CD, I love Spunk Rock by Man on that album as well as Hawkwind. I also got the other Greasy Truckers with Camel et all.

[@TheSwitchCleaner1978]

HOW ABOUT SOME LIGHTNING RAIDERS?

[@cliffchapman3080]

Is there any recording or film from the Christmas Eve gig at the Roundhouse ?

[@gfrkiss]

I remember going to see Ted Nugent at hammersmith in 79 and Jesus was playing the damn maracas !!!! I don't think anybody heard his contribution!!

[@braindeadtoo]

I got my car written off on my way back from a Ted Nugent gig at The Hammy Odeon. Three car pileup out side Kennington Station. The guy I ran into informed me that Elvis just had died.

[@zunkill]

Wow. I was at the Roundhouse in 1977 for a Damned show. A guy a couple of seats from me was playing a plastic pipe. He stripped & was naked for last part of the show. I mentioned this to Roger Armstrong of Rock On (Chiswick Records) the next day & he told me that was Jesus. So I guess you weren't dreaming...or maybe we both were........

[@smurfu2]

You from Killie?

[@jojojam6012]

Somewhat limited, but dopey enough for the time. The Fairies belonged to the elite.

[@Bucklefooked]

@roryboy100 nice one Roryboy

[@roryboy100]

What ever happened to Jesus and the guy who stood in the crowd with no clothes on... or was i dreaming all this?

[@nacho76]

I read a full recent article on the internet all about that man, but couldnt tell you where

[@waynesilverman3048]

This basslines from social deviants

[@andrelebaron]

@roryboy100 If you really loved the 70s you'd have started that with Dear Penthouse Forum . .

[@vicpur]

Just tttttttooooooooooo much Large Smelly Dog!!!!!

[@HumanBill67]

Pity it's not in sync.

[@arsydd]

Hard to sync the separate audio footage with silent video footage of that quality. Unsynced sound was a better option than no sound

[@necroarteunbuenmate]

@arsydd brutal punkrock

[@croiners4166]

Wtf?